Shun was invited to the Going-Home Club by Naoki Satou, also known as "Chokki-chan". Despite refusing, he ends up being somewhat forcefully involved in the... more>> club's activities! A Going Home Club rom-com featuring a detour-loving high school girl and a new high school student who has lost his dream. <<less

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The coming-of-age story of Nao's dream to become a guide dog trainer! Dumped, unemployed and generally unsuccessful office lady Konno Nao. The story depicts Nao's... more>> development from a woman sick of life and people to someone who dreams of becoming a guide dog trainer after a chance meeting. “Memorize the names of 60 dogs?” “Work from 6:30AM to 10:00PM for five years?” All kinds of surprising facts come to light! <<less

Serialized in 1977 in Futabasha's "Weekly Manga Action" on January 6th, January 13th, March 3rd, March 31st, May 5th (6 chapters in total).... more>>

Kodansha’s reprint edition include “Monkey Punch no Nazo-Nazo Comic”. <<less

A former baseball player has turned to banditry.

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A boy makes an innocuous wish on a shooting star, and the world ends.

Zombies can turn humans by both biting them and as a STD.... more>>

There are also levels of Zombification.

Now that this virus is running rampant the government is trying to control it by putting a collar on ever zombie over level 3. Unfortunately for Yukio, he is a level 3.

This is his story (or at least that's how it's looking). <<less

A work which highlights the “present” of the capital punishment system through OIKAWA Naoki, a newly recruited prison officer, who faces condemned criminals everyday and agonizes. Based on close and careful research, the author tackles with the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on.... more>>

Won the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. <<less

Chapter 5 - "Firefly Inn of Horror": hapless Meiji-era man stumbles into a Western-style mansion. Does hilarity or hotness ensue? Mayhaps BOTH?

The manga is about ten year old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan", who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. This sounds really depressing, but it's actually a very funny comedy.... more>>

Chie the Brat received the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. <<less

The manga follows the carefree life and delicate relationship between a nine-year-old brother-in-law and his older brother's 21-year-old wife. [ANN]

Ever since his father passed away, Ikki Kai feels bored by everything and yearns for a change of pace. While on a run through the... more>> woods, he meets a man who changes his life forever: this man is part of the Japan Self-Defence Forces. Now the only thing Ikki wants to do is join the JSDF himself. But will he able to survive the harsh trials that await him? <<less

Koutarou, a spry young go-getter from Hokkaido, moves to Tokyo to get involved with the salesman business. Unfortunately for him, it’s slim pickings as he... more>> becomes intertwined with the lives of several other salespeople and scammers in his attempt to make money as cheap and as quick as possible. <<less

Nobu, a 32 year old salary man, is spreading justice from the shadows as a ninja while maintaining his family and working at his company.... more>> What he doesn't know is that he is being followed by mysterious persons and his gifted family. Can he put everything in order? <<less

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A short piece about getting a job and going out into society, old flames, and Elmore James.

A series of rather comedic stories about an eponymous bar, its owner, two regular patrons, and the oddballs that stroll through its doors.

Mizuki is a first year high school student and bored with her daily life and immersed in her studies. She runs away from home during spring break to visit her aunt Yuki, who runs a coffee shop in Akita. One day, she accompanies her aunt to a local high school to make a delivery. ... more>>

A coming-of-age story dedicated to eight minutes of music and movement in the marching band. <<less

Seton is the story of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), a famous American writer and naturalist.

Featuring a modern-day odd couple, the naive and sexually inexperienced Kubota and the handsome charmer Hachisuka, who meet up by accident in a Middle Eastern... more>> desert and return to Japan to hustle their way through life. They start by getting involved in shady TV dealings, where they get jobs making fake documentaries. <<less

An alien species wanted to start a revolution against their oppressors, and they think they may have found the power in humanity to accomplish their goals. They discovered that humans have latent superpowers, and so they began to abduct them and awaken their abilities. Unfortunately, the humans' abilities were not very useful for their purposes---at least not until they found the destructive power of #214. ... more>>

#214 is actually a young woman named Hoshi Yumako, who has no interest at all in the aliens' revolution. The abduction and powers have seriously screwed up her life, and all she wants is to be able to live a normal life. Pursued by the aliens, she tries to work part-time and keep her powers from ruining everything. However, she knows she's not the only one out there; she might find allies among the empowered rejects of the aliens' experiments. <<less

The experiences of two Japanese people who move to the US; one a judo teacher, the other a guitarist.

A story about a modern-day Japan where anomalies known as ‘hizumi’ (twists) begin to appear and merge organisms and objects together. After a high school... more>> delinquent, a middle school nerd, a cat and a flea end up fused together, they embark on a quest to learn more about the phenomenon. <<less